Of course I remember him. He was the first one to make Taito Type X games work.
Even today, his code is the base of the other loader codes (Jconfig, Tecnoparrot, etc)
As I know, when he started Taito Type X project he was in college. I think he left his project because he started a full time job and had no time left to his arcade pc games code.
He left a great work (open source) to be continue.